Let me try to put this as plainly as I can, and let’s be really honest here, let’s really look at marriage for a second. I'll get personal, for a moment. I have an incredible marriage and a fantastic kid, but there is no question that my life was much more story-worthy when I was single. Was I happier? Absolutely not. Was my life a better story from a drama sense? Ummmm, yeah.
Okay, yeah, that's pretty much true for me as well.
But I'm not convinced that it has much to do with being married or not, being more of a function of being young, and stupid, and convinced of my own immortality and the kindness of strangers. And a lot of the "story-worthy" aspects of my life then had nothing to do with relationships. However, some did. So I'm giving partial credit here. :)
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First, a disclaimer. I don't read Spider-Man and currently, I'm not reading any Marvel titles, just those Anita Blake adaptations and I have no idea why, but that's another, uh, story.
I guess it's a matter of what you want to write and how you write it. Marriage takes things away from some characters while enhancing others. Superman or rather Clark Kent is married to Lois, finally, and it's been a few years now, and that seems to be working just fine. I don't think the Superman books are hard up for stories.
Not comics, but the Thin Man and wife (Nick and Nora Charles) were always story-worthy, but the stories came from without, the mysteries they solved.
Back to comics, I like how Wally West and his wife and now their kids are in the middle of some heavy storylines, some of which focus on the kids. It can be done. It just takes a bit more work and imagination.
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